Minute book for meetings of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Polytechnic between 22 Sep 1947 and 16 June 1958.
Matters arising include: financial statements; Quintin School; Director of Education report; Robert Mitchell medals; salaries; members and students statistics; cinema licence/lease (Rialto Cinemas Ltd); Olympic Games 1948; Clubs and Societies; Compassionate Fund; renovations and improvements; maintenance grants; fire insurance; Kynaston Studd memorial fund; allotments on Chiswick Sports Ground; staff appointments and resignations; scholarships; World War 2 Memorial; tuition fees; Polytechnic Touring Association Shop (19 Dec 1949); Alcohol licence at the Boathouse (19 Feb 1951); Festival of Britain 1951; Coronation decorations; Audit Fees; Students' Union constitution; cinema ventilation system issues (1954-1956); HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit to Poly (Feb 1958).
Minute book for meetings of the Finance and General Purposes Committee of the Polytechnic between 24 Nov 1921 and 21 Jan 1929.
Matters arising include: financial statements; appointments, salaries and resignations; clubs and societies; Compassionate Fund; grants; Howard Morley Legacy (1922); membership statistics; Large Hall [cinema] lettings; Chiswick Sports Ground improvements; Robert Mitchell Scholarship; Great Portland Street Extension rebuilding scheme [Little Titchfield Street/Riding House Street building]; leases of buildings.
Bound volume entitled 'Polytechnic Olympic Games 1908 Honorary Members' Visiting athletes were given full Polytechnic Membership free. Volume contains columns for name, address, country, events, ticket no and date issued. 307 tickets issued. Volume continues with other events.
Copies of Olympia Zeitung, the official organ of the 11th Olympic Games 1936 in Berlin. The collection includes issues 11-15, 17, and 28 as well as other issues which are missing their front covers. The pages of the newspapers are numbered consecutively across the series. The newspapers includes interviews with and photographs of athletes, as well as photographs of parades and political leaders.
Published book with real photographs covering both the 1936 Olympic Games and an overview of the previous 40 years of the Olympics with colour-tinted photographs for each games. Includes a large number of photographs of competing Olympics athletes, crowds, and Nazi politicans.
Photograph of a display in the windows of 309 Regent Street featuring a list of the Men's and Women's Athletic Clubs, a welcome sign incorporating the Olympic rings, the Studd Trophy and some sporting equipment. Annotated on reverse 'Window Displays 1948?'.
